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The UK Government’s approach to the UK internal market: what Northern Ireland needs to know

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Dr Katy Hayward analyses the UK Government’s White Paper on the UK Internal Market, and the particular issues it raises with respect to Northern Ireland.

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Brexit 2020: Where are we now?

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Who better to tell us than Dr Katy Hayward who has produced this short summary following a recent online event with community workers and leaders across Northern Ireland.

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Reforming Sexual Consent in Northern Ireland: Reflections on ‘Reasonable Belief’

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In the second of two Queen’s Policy Engagement Briefing Papers, Dr Eithne Dowds situates Northern Ireland’s approach to sexual consent within broader trends towards ‘affirmative models of consent’.

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Sexual Consent in Northern Ireland: The Social and Legal Dimensions

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This is the first of two Queen’s Policy Engagement Briefing Papers by Dr Eithne Dowds. In this paper, Dr Dowds looks at how consent, despite being a key concept in the law on sexual offences in Northern Ireland, is subject to different and competing interpretations.

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The UK Approach to the Northern Ireland Protocol

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Dr Katy Hayward provides an analysis of the UK’s command paper on the Northern Ireland protocol.

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Facing and fixing the democratic deficit in post-Brexit Northern Ireland

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Dr Katy Hayward looks at a new report on Brexit, the Protocol and the governance challenges they pose for Northern Ireland

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Cancer Care in the Era of COVID-19 – Online Panel Discussion

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Queen’s University Belfast has been playing a leading role in the fight against COVID-19, particularly in the cancer domain.

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The Specialised Committee on the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland

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Professor David Phinnemore takes a look at the Specialised Committee on the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland which will be meeting for the first time on 30 April.

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Northern Ireland’s MPs: their influence on Brexit

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Northern Ireland’s 18 MPs find themselves in a Parliament beholden to Johnson, but are the strategies of their parties likely to make any difference to Northern Ireland’s Brexit fortunes asks Dr Katy Hayward.

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Coronavirus and the need for a new social and economic contract

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In order to stem the inevitable economic downturn that will follow the COVID-19 crisis, we need something that provides every single person with the basic economic security they are entitled to. We need a Universal Basic Income says Patrick Brown.

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New report on Parliament and Brexit

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Parliament faced unprecedented challenges during the tumultuous Brexit years – many of which remain unresolved – finds a new academic report by the UK in a Changing Europe.

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The Brexit divorce and the problem child: Or, why Northern Ireland will not sit down and shut up

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Northern Ireland’s complex parentage raises problems for Brexit. Dr Katy Hayward argues that both the UK and the EU are making the mistake of viewing Northern Ireland as a potential risk rather than a joint responsibility.

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